2008 Accessibility Books OER 
Edsurge
JULY 25, 2019
That figure includes texts procured legally, like open educational resources (known as OER), and illegally, such as pirated files shared through torrent websites. The decrease follows a trend of near-steady spending decline going back at least 10 years to 2007-2008, when students reported spending an average of $701 on course materials.
Kitaboo on EdTech
JUNE 13, 2019
By leveraging the digital medium, textbook publishers decided to fight the monopoly and try to provide reasonably priced books. Decrease in State Funding: The government has been scaling back on the funding on college education since the great recession of 2008. Related: Are etextbooks More Affordable Than Textbooks.
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Edsurge
MAY 23, 2019
Now something similar may be happening with textbooks, as publishing giants start to broker campuswide deals with colleges that give students unlimited access to a publisher’s digital textbooks at cut-rate prices. College leaders stress that professors retain as much academic freedom as ever to choose which books to assign.
Iterating Toward Openness
JANUARY 13, 2017
I agreed on the conditions that I would retain copyright in the chapter and that it would appear in the book under a Creative Commons license. Now that the book is appearing in print, I’m publishing the full-text chapter here so that there will be an easier-to-access open access version of the chapter available online.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
Edmodo was one of the early stars of the most recent resurgence in ed-tech startup founding and funding (circa 2008 onward, that is). ” In reviewing Srnicek’s book in March, New York Times media journalist John Hermann wrote , Platforms are, in a sense, capitalism distilled to its essence. The company has raised some $77.5
Hack Education
JUNE 23, 2017
Via Nature : “One of the world’s largest science publishers, Elsevier , won a default legal judgement on 21 June against websites that provide illicit access to tens of millions of research papers and books. million project to use open educational resources (OER) to create degree programs at 38 community colleges.
Hack Education
JANUARY 18, 2017
Monica Crowley , Trump’s pick for director of strategic communications for the National Security Council, has decided to not take a position with the new administration following revelations about her plagiarizing her dissertation and her 2012 book. ” Via Campus Technology : “ Pearson to Lower Cost of E-Books, Textbooks.”
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